Chapter Eighty-Seven: Preparing for PK Principal Tan
As the saying goes, "there are no more than three things", but Ye Zi's "The Sound of the Waves Remains" ranked second for the third time this week, and the first place is still occupied by the song "Immortal Love" by the king of the Xiangjiang music scene, Alan Tam, Principal Tan. For three weeks in a row, the same two songs ranked first and second, which was also the first time since the opening of the "Pop Song Chart".
The "tragic" encounter of "Sanlianya" made Ye Zi really depressed in his heart.
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Compared with Ye Zi, the depression in Chen Zimo's heart was even deeper.
This week, the number of votes for "The Sound of the Waves Remains" was only a dozen votes less than that of "Undying Love", and the difference between the two was almost the same. If we had done something internally, maybe the rankings of the two would have been reversed this week.
Although this situation made Chen Zimo a little depressed and regretful, he was not discouraged. On the contrary, in his heart, the weight of Ye Zi, a new all-round singer, is much heavier.
Why? Just look at the top three songs of the week.
Principal Tan and Ye Zi have been firmly occupying the top two spots on the list for three weeks, and no song has been able to shake their position in a short period of time.
Looking further down, the songwriter of the third song is Ye Zi again, and it is the song "Sing If You Want to Sing" sung by Zeng Chun's little girl.
This new song almost set a new record for mainland songs since the opening of the "Pop Song Chart", and it directly rushed into the top three in just three weeks, compared to "The Sound of the Waves", this song is more ferocious.
Relying on the hit of the program "Top Ten Selections", the new song "Sing If You Want to Sing" has completely conquered the young audience in front of the TV, and it is also singing all the way on the charts. But for the future prospects of this song, Chen Zimo, Ouyang, Xia Ning and others are not particularly optimistic.
The song is definitely a good song, but its audience is destined to only be young people, which can be clearly seen from the summary of the song ordering situation in the column "Song Table".
The people who broadcast this song "Sing If You Want to Sing" on demand are all young people, and they are concentrated in the time slots where "Top Ten Selections" is broadcast, and there are relatively few other time slots, and few older listeners play this song on demand. This is a good indication that the audience for this song must be limited.
The song "The Sound of the Waves Remains" is completely different. From teenagers, young people in their twenties and thirties to middle-aged and elderly people in their forties and fifties or even sixties and seventies, the on-demand audience of this song covers almost every age group, and there is no obvious difference in the on-demand period, and there will be viewers who will play this song on demand at any time.
In the past two weeks, the on-demand rate of "The Sound of the Waves Remains" is on par with Jiang and Taiwan songs, and its on-demand frequency and frequency are among the top few.
From this situation, it can be concluded that "The Sound of the Waves Remains" is really an excellent work suitable for all ages.
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Ye Zi's other two works have also been strongly affirmed by Chen Zimo and others.
Zhang Lei's "How to Say Love" copied Zeng Chun's record set in the first two weeks, and ranked eleventh on the list for the first time, with quite good results. Chen Zimo: Of course they know, this is also Ye Zi's work.
With this new song, the nickname of "Shencheng Zhaochuan" has been worn on Zhang Lei's head by fans. Since the new song appeared on the "Weekly New Song Recommendation", Zhang Lei has really been proud, and his limelight is unique among the many night singers in Shencheng.
In the past two weeks, almost every night on the stage of the metropolis, guests have specially ordered this new song of Zhang Lei, and he receives a few hundred yuan in flower baskets every day. Now Zhang Lei has become a well-deserved top singer in the metropolis, and many guests come to Zhang Lei's name every day, and the business of the metropolis is naturally rising, envying other night clubs in Shencheng. In order to prevent other fields from poaching people at high prices, the boss of the Metropolis immediately raised his appearance fee, from the original mid-range level of 70 yuan per game to the top salary of 120 yuan, and Zhang Lei's economic situation suddenly relaxed a lot. However, he still saved most of his income, and he didn't forget about it, and there was a new song that was more difficult to make yet.
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Although the Chinese version of "Late Autumn" sung by Ye Zi is not his own work, his singing is flawless, and the arrangement, recording and post-production zuò have reached a very high level, which is definitely the same quality and rare excellent work as "The Sound of the Waves".
This new song was loved by listeners as soon as it was broadcast. Because the Cantonese version sung by Chen Junjia has long been widely circulated, the audience has long been familiar with the melody of this song, and the lyrics created by Su Lai are really excellent, so Ye Zi's Chinese version is very cheap.
"Late Autumn" made its first appearance on the list this week and directly rushed into the top 10, ranking eighth. This is the best first time for a mainland pop song to be on the chart, creating a new history. Even those big singers in Jiang and Taiwan, if the selected works are not good enough, it will be difficult for them to achieve such good results on the list for the first time.
With such achievements in front of him, if Chen Zimo, Ouyang and Xia Ning, these important ministers of the radio station do not pay attention to it, it is a really strange thing.
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The November 10, 1991 issue of the "Pop Song Chart" was evaluated by music critics a few years later as a watershed moment in the change of the chart, which is not an unfounded random analysis.
Some interesting things can be seen from the content of this issue of the list, first of all, the continuous strengthening of mainland pop songs.
Last week, four mainland songs occupied the top 10 of the chart, and this week went one step further, bringing the number of mainland songs in the top 10 to an unprecedented five. For the first time, mainland songs can compete with Jiang and Taiwan songs on this list. In addition to Ye Zi's two songs ranked second and eighth respectively, and Zeng Chun's "Sing If You Want to Sing" ranked third, Li Jie's red song "The Sun is the Reddest Chairman is the Dearest" advanced two places this week, rising from eighth to sixth place last week. And Xie Xiaodong's "Every Once" is standing still, still in ninth place.
This kind of confrontation between the two sides is undoubtedly what Chen Zimo and others are extremely willing to see, and they have long hoped that mainland songs can truly compete with those Jiang and Taiwan songs.
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There is another situation hidden in this list, if you are interested in observing, you should be able to detect it.
For the first time, mainland songs occupy half of the charts, which is a gratifying phenomenon. If you look more closely, people who are interested will be surprised to find that most of this half of the country is related to Ye Zi, a new singer. Expanding the focus to the top 20 songs on this week's chart, the number of songs related to Ye Zi has increased to four. Among them, three are his own compositions, and the other is a lyric cover. Each of these four songs performed quite well, occupying the second, third, eighth, and eleventh positions respectively, and there were three songs in the top ten.
Among the 20 songs on the list, the works related to Ye Zi account for one-fifth, which is really unprecedented. And these four new songs are sung by three male and female singers with different styles respectively, which not only shows that Ye Zi's works are extremely guaranteed in terms of quantity and quality, but also that these songs are collectively on the list, which is equivalent to using Ye Zi's works as a link, forming a small group of singers headed by Ye Zi in the list, and everyone gathered together to rush the list. Such a force will never be ignored by any list.
This is the famous "Ye Zi Bang Bang Song Troupe" on the lists in the early 90s, referred to as "Ye Ge".
The first battle after the formation of "Ye Ge" is to directly face the current top of the list and the king of the Xiangjiang music scene - Alan Tam and Principal Tan.
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When it comes to Principal Tan, I am afraid that everyone in the mainland knows that it is a real emperor superstar.
On the "Pop Song Chart", Principal Tan is the co-owner of the song with the most number of songs on the list, the most first times on the chart, and the most number of songs that have won the top of the chart. In Shencheng at that time, the only thing comparable to Principal Tan was Brother An, the prince of love songs from the Taiwan Strait, who was the holder of the record for the longest consecutive championship, and his song "Let Life Wait" had dominated the list for seven weeks, which is currently the highest on the list. But when it comes to other numbers, Brother An can't compare with Principal Tan.
Now, the "Ye Ge" led by Ye Zi wants to start a desperate struggle with Principal Tan on the list, which is obviously extremely difficult.
But in Ye Zi's heart, he didn't think that Principal Tan was necessarily invulnerable.
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It is definitely not an easy thing to defeat Principal Tan in a frontal battle, but after careful analysis, Ye Zi feels that this time there is really a chance.
The song "Undying Love" has been on the chart for thirteen weeks, and it has been at the top of the chart for three weeks, and the energy has basically run out. This is the most important point. If this song is still on the list for a short time, Ye Zi is definitely not sure to confront it head-on, and Principal Tan's appeal in the hearts of fans is not something that Ye Zi can resist now.
That's the time for it. "Heaven and Buddha take the blame, and when they don't do it, they suffer it", Ye Zi knows how to do it in a timely manner.
Looking at it on the other hand, Ye Zi's "The Sound of the Waves Remains" has only been on the list for seven weeks, and it is at a time when a new song is the most powerful and eye-catching on the list. In those seven weeks, it has gone from 18th at the time of the list, to 9th in the second week, then third in two weeks, and second in the last three weeks, proving that "The Sound of the Waves" still has enough potential to be fully explored.
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Second, judging from the votes in the past few weeks, "The Sound of the Waves Remains" has gradually approached its opponent with the quality of the song itself without accepting a live telephone interview and no other external forces. If there is a little external force at this time, it is completely possible to surpass Principal Tan.
The difference between the two songs from more than 1,000 votes at the beginning has been narrowed to about 10 votes last week, and they are almost neck and neck on the list. Next week, Ye Zi can mobilize the power of his classmates to increase the number of votes for himself, which is Ye Zi's natural advantage as a landlord, which is enough to offset the only little voting enthusiasm left by Principal Tan's huge number of fans in thirteen weeks. And with Ye Zi's current upward trend, it is very likely that he will have the upper hand. If it weren't for the entanglement of the "Top Ten Selections" in the first two weeks, Ye Zi would have done it a long time ago, and all he needed to pay was to buy a few more copies of "Weekly Radio and Television" and a certain amount of money.
Being able to defeat Principal Tan on the list, such a effort is definitely worth it.
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Another point, Ye Zi doesn't think that the song "The Sound of the Waves Remains" is much worse than "Undying Love".
If the gap between these two songs in the previous life was obvious in terms of arrangement, recording, and production, then in this life, such a gap no longer exists. Ye Zi produced the works with the support of the system, if he would lose to other songs in these technical aspects, then Xiao Qi would have jumped out and scolded him to death.
In all aspects of the production of the two songs, including arrangement, recording, mixing, mastering, etc., Ye Zi is confident that he will never lose to the other party. The only thing he envies about Principal Tan is that the song "Undying Love", including the album in which this song is located, is completely accompanied by real people and real instruments. Although "The Sound of the Waves Remains" does not require a real person to play with real instruments, Ye Zi is still very envious of the other party's luxurious production conditions.
Especially the jazz drums played by the "Asian Drum King" Tangnu Esri, Ye Zi was really hungry after listening to it!
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